BYSTRA
Stay sharp. Stay present. Stay you.
A gentle daily companion for people living with Alzheimer's and dementia, and the families who care for them. BYSTRA greets your person by name each morning, holds the memories that make them who they are, and plays the songs of their life.
Built on published dementia research. Designed with the person, not just the diagnosis, in mind.
A gentle daily companion.
BYSTRA is a tablet app that lives with the person you love. Each morning it opens on its own to one calm screen: today's date, a warm note from you, and the songs and photographs of their life. No menus. Nothing to get lost in.
How it works.
Family sets it up
Upload photos, record your voice, add the songs they grew up with. It takes one quiet evening.
The tablet lives with them
Every morning it opens by itself to one simple screen. A greeting, a memory, a song. No way to get lost.
Family stays connected
A calm dashboard shows how they're doing. Gentle patterns, never scores, never alarms.
Why it works
Grounded in what the science actually shows.
BYSTRA doesn't claim to cure anything. Every part of it is built on what research shows genuinely helps: presence, familiarity, and calm.
Songs from a person's youth reach them when little else does.
Musical memory is among the last things dementia takes, and personal music is shown to ease agitation and lift mood.
Personal photos and stories support identity and connection.
The most personal reminiscence is what research links to the strongest benefit.
A calm, predictable evening ritual is a first-line, non-drug way to soften the hardest hours of the day.
For people who get restless as the light fades.
We’re honest about the evidence: these approaches help people feel better and calmer. They are not a cure.
Made for real people.
Rosa is 78. She ran a bakery on Via Belmeloro in Bologna for forty years. She married Marco in June 1972. Her grandchildren, Luca and Giulia, still ask for her tagliatelle.
Some mornings the recent years feel far away. But the bakery, the wedding, the songs of her youth, those are still hers. BYSTRA is built to hand them back to her, gently, every day.
BYSTRA is built for people like Rosa.
What families see.
Engagement patterns
Last 30 daysThese patterns reflect how they're engaging with BYSTRA. They are not a clinical assessment.
BYSTRA shows families gentle patterns of engagement, never scores, never a decline chart. What you’re looking at is participation, not a clinical assessment.
Being developed with input from dementia-care professionals, and from a family who lived it.
In development. Free for the first 50 families.